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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-12-29 05:19:47 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-12-29 05:19:47 +0100
commite3c6d4ee545e427b55882d97d3b663c6411645fe (patch)
tree294326663fb757739a98083c2ddd570d1eaf7337 /kernel/time/timekeeping.c
parentsparc: move select of ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI (diff)
parentMerge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/p... (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: arch/sparc64/kernel/idprom.c
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diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index e7acfb482a68..fa05e88aa76f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -518,6 +518,28 @@ void update_wall_time(void)
/* correct the clock when NTP error is too big */
clocksource_adjust(offset);
+ /*
+ * Since in the loop above, we accumulate any amount of time
+ * in xtime_nsec over a second into xtime.tv_sec, its possible for
+ * xtime_nsec to be fairly small after the loop. Further, if we're
+ * slightly speeding the clocksource up in clocksource_adjust(),
+ * its possible the required corrective factor to xtime_nsec could
+ * cause it to underflow.
+ *
+ * Now, we cannot simply roll the accumulated second back, since
+ * the NTP subsystem has been notified via second_overflow. So
+ * instead we push xtime_nsec forward by the amount we underflowed,
+ * and add that amount into the error.
+ *
+ * We'll correct this error next time through this function, when
+ * xtime_nsec is not as small.
+ */
+ if (unlikely((s64)clock->xtime_nsec < 0)) {
+ s64 neg = -(s64)clock->xtime_nsec;
+ clock->xtime_nsec = 0;
+ clock->error += neg << (NTP_SCALE_SHIFT - clock->shift);
+ }
+
/* store full nanoseconds into xtime after rounding it up and
* add the remainder to the error difference.
*/